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If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

We will make it so that a Democrat cannot govern as a Democrat.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

There are a number of people who won't be president in 2009, and Mark Warner is one of them.

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower ... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.

Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

Obsessions turn people off.

Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.

Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy.

The statists want to control the economy.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries.

The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.

People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

People who say that there's a vote within the Republican Party that moves against immigrants is just factually not accurate.

Our job is to make people free.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.

What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.